Hi Malorie,
Please, open services (Run>services.msc) on your machine and check if Sophos Anti-Virus service is running. Start the service manually if it is not running and restart if it is running already.
Haridoss Sreenivasan
Technical Support Engineer | Sophos Technical Support
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